Meh, I think it is due to incompetence and the sheer difficulty of asking one person to run a multi-trillion dollar operation that is supposed to govern 320 million people. Doesn't explain how other countries manage... As population grows linearly, the complexity and difficulty of governing it grow...

If there really is such a "vast" number of things that governments suck at so terribly, I'm sure it would be easy for you to draw up a list. Go on, I'll wait. Yes, it is rather easy: You'll notice that sonar1313 has listed things the US government has sucked at, generally due to chronical...

Agreed Keyman was being an arse suggesting doing this for fun, your "echo chamber" comment made me think you were accusing everyone here of being malicious. Yeah, no, sorry. I was thinking more on the lines of... a 17.63 bill and handing 20.13 for 2.50 change I still think giving extra bi...

It's nice to see the xkcd echochamber completely free from sneering at low-income workers. Well done folks, deliberately making life more difficult for shop workers doesn't make you look like a bunch of entitled arseholes at all.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/background_apps.png Title text: My plane banner company gets business by flying around with a banner showing a <div> tag, waiting for a web developer to get frustrated enough to order a matching </div>. "Closing background apps when you're not using them makes your...

Saw this yesterday and thought it was quite a funny idea :) https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture/comments/7ejdad/clearly_a_gsv_using_our_star_to_slow_itself/ At estimated size of 180m x 30m x 30m it's more likely to be a GCU, or some kind of VFP/OU. GSVs are big . Yes indeed, some guys on reddit sai...

I'm assuming that Halifax refers to the one in Nova Scotia rather than the one in the People's Republic of Yorkshire. We're not that much colder than that there London up 'ere. Bradford, Yorkshire, is not listed. It's titled "where to live" so of course Bradford, Yorkshire, is not listed....

Wooloomooloo wrote:I must have a different locale set - my translation reads "I have 99 problems, but you getting offended by something I said is never going to be one of them. Deal with it. Your problem. Not mine."...

orthogon wrote:By the way, has anyone else in the UK (or beyond) felt like they're coming down with a cold for the last three or four weeks, without it either developing into the real thing or going away?

...if intelligent alien life exists it is most likely as far as we know to have evolved on a very earth-like world to a very human-like form. As far as we actually know that's the only way things actually work. That's not just a sample-size bias, it's physics, applied physics and etc. Non-human int...

You know, other continents do exist. It's not so much my ethnocentricity as my trite stereotyping. The behavior strikes me as quite American. After all, "Fuck Glaciers" is the official position of the U.S. Government in 2017. Also, I couldn't find a hemispheric map of glacial erratics, so...

If you can't move a glacial erratic, then it needs a name: http://www.geologicnow.com/images/chapter14/Figure1.jpg The above map also shows that the action in this comic must be taking place in the northern part of the continent, because there are no glacial erratics in the south. You know, other c...